Cameroon coach Winfried Schaefer has criticised Fifa's decision to strip his team of six World Cup qualifying points and called for them to be restored.

Last month, football's world governing body fined the Cameroon football federation and deducted points from the Indomitable Lions as punishment for wearing a one-piece strip in the 2004 Cup of Nations.

The decision has disappointed Cameroon's German coach.

"There needs to be fair play from Fifa," Schaefer said.

The coach, who was speaking in Yaounde following Friday's African Football awards, even cited the Indomitable Lions' continued presence in the 2003 Confederations Cup following Marc-Vivien Foe's death as reason for Fifa to be lenient.